Author Archives: Brian
Security Review: TrueCrypt
Summary TrueCrypt is a disk encryption system intended to solve the problem of people being forced to disclose encryption keys or face consequences. It allows a disk partition to be completely encrypted. The most recent version even includes a special … Continue reading
Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 Discovered
A new vulnerability has been discovered in the 2.6 Linux kernel that allows a local user to obtain a root shell. The bug description was posted within the last 24 hours, and includes exploit code that works on a large … Continue reading
Security software or adware?
It recently came to my attention that Adobe is now including an option (which is checked by default) in their installers for Adobe Reader and the Shockwave player to install a Norton Security Scan program. I think this raises some … Continue reading